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The Twice-Dead King

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The Twice-Dead King	comment	The Twice-Dead King is a Warhammer 40,000 novel by author Nate Crowley.Divided into two parts (Ruin and Reign) and published with a 3-month gap in October 2021 and January 2022, it follows Necron lord Oltyx, once heir to the throne of the Ithakas dynasty, now disgraced and exiled to the borders of their territory to fight off endless waves of orks. Upon discovering that a far worse enemy — an Imperial crusade — follows after them, however, Oltyx is forced to break his exile and wade back into dynastic politics in hopes of bringing warning to, and possibly saving, his now-crumbling dynasty.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_115d318	type	And Then John Was a Zombie
The Twice-Dead King / int_115d318	comment	And Then John Was a Zombie: Oltyx has been unknowingly under the influence of the Flayer Curse for centuries without succumbing. It’s only until he hits the Despair Event Horizon that he finally gives in to the hunger. But it turns out, giving in to the Flayer Curse without fear or regret is something like Necron nirvana, and Oltyx ends up becoming/taking on the mantle of Valgul, the Flayer King, the only Flayed One to retain his grip on reality.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
The Twice-Dead King / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: The “cannibal hymn” sung by the Flayed Ones who have totally overrun Antikef, giving praise to the “eater of gods”, Akh-Weynis-Wenm-Netr, the now totally insane and Flayer-corrupted King Unnas. As a bonus, it’s based nearly verbatim on a real Egyptian funerary spell first recorded in the pyramid of the pharaoh Unas.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
The Twice-Dead King / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: Before the start of the novel, Oltyx has been exiled to Sedh for attempted regicide.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
The Twice-Dead King / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: The Flayer Curse fills this role for the Necrons, causing them to grow talons and crave flesh they can no longer eat. Virus-Victim Symptoms: Flayed Ones start with social withdrawal and mood lability, then gain the urge to bite people's faces off and begin to physically morph, taking on clawed and twisted forms.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
The Twice-Dead King / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once: The tachyon arrow weapon both Oltyx and Djoseras have contains a single shot only. Oltyx wasted his early on during the War in Heaven, missing a single Eldar flyer. Djoseras kept his, and shows it off by instantly obliterating an Imperial Titan with it.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Twice-Dead King / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Denet's monoliths, which he finally manages to summon at the very end of the book to shield the Akrops from destruction above Drazak. The Legend of Chekhov: The rumours of Valgul the Bone King and his Flayed kingdom on Drazak. Although Valgul himself never appears, Drazak exists, and Oltyx takes up mythical role as Flayed king.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_25f0ed12	type	Hollywood Tone-Deaf
The Twice-Dead King / int_25f0ed12	comment	Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Transformation into an immortal robot, and the concomitant Creative Sterility, did no favours to Djoseras's musical ability.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_2c9ab6bb	type	Position of Literal Power
The Twice-Dead King / int_2c9ab6bb	comment	Position of Literal Power: The higher-class a Necron is, the better quality of robotic body they get, and the more technological benefits they have access to, which translates to greater martial prowess. When Oltyx becomes dynast and gets the accompanying upgrade, he gains a whole host of new abilities which take time for him to figure out.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_2c9e262	type	Catapult Nightmare
The Twice-Dead King / int_2c9e262	comment	Catapult Nightmare: Oltyx comes to screaming and trying to scramble away from an induced flashback to biotransferance. Justified in that, as a robot, he no longer has any of the physiological mechanisms that maintain atonia while unconscious.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_2dae4381	type	My Master, Right or Wrong
The Twice-Dead King / int_2dae4381	comment	My Master, Right or Wrong: Most necrons are programmed to have complete loyalty to their king and dynasty; Djoseras's loyalty is chosen, but still absolute.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_30cdefe1	type	Reluctant Ruler
The Twice-Dead King / int_30cdefe1	comment	Reluctant Ruler: Djoseras is next-in-line to the throne, and is batshit terrified of the prospect of ever actually taking it.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_33a2f32f	type	Do Androids Dream?
The Twice-Dead King / int_33a2f32f	comment	Do Androids Dream?: The necrons believe themselves soulless, though sentient; Crowley leaves it ambiguous as to whether the reader is meant to agree. The relative inhumanity of the book's humans additionally complicates the question.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Twice-Dead King / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Necrons intending this will turn off their recall protocols so their consciousness will die with their body. Neth does it when Oltyx plans to kill him for failure, and Djoseras does it before his last stand.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
The Twice-Dead King / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: In Ruin, Oltyx experiences a memory of pre-biotransference Antikef, watching the sun rise over the capital city, and notes that even after becoming a spacefaring empire with unfathomable technology at its disposal, Necrontyr commoners are still forced to make their homes out of mud brick.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
The Twice-Dead King / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: Djoseras is killed by an Angels Encarnadine Astartes while Oltyx flees the battle of Antikef.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Twice-Dead King / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Hemium tortures Oltyx by turning off his motor functions and turning on his pain receptors, leaving him paralyzed as Hemium takes his time carving him up and stripping away many of his components.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_44a893af	type	Humans Through Alien Eyes
The Twice-Dead King / int_44a893af	comment	Humans Through Alien Eyes: The Imperium of Man is the antagonists, as seen through Oltyx's Necron perspective. The Twice-Dead King books are two of a very small number of books where it’s the Imperium that serves as the faceless, alien threat, without even a POV character to humanize them (although a short story included in the physical copy of Ruin gives the Angels Encarmine’s perspective on the siege of Antikef). Despite technological inferiority, they are a serious threat through sheer numbers.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_453f4b1	type	Condemned Contestant
The Twice-Dead King / int_453f4b1	comment	Condemned Contestant: Hemium talks Unnas into holding gladiatorial fights with his enemies, rather than simply executing them
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The Twice-Dead King / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
The Twice-Dead King / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Yenekh. Amazing warrior and fleet commander, now fighting a losing battle against the Flayer Curse.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Twice-Dead King / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Oltyx's character is established in this way. Necron honour would hold that he is obligated to prevent the invading Orks from any contact from Sedh's tomb complexes, and to fight this battle with his foot soldiers in traditional melee outside the tomb. Oltyx decides that this is a load of bull, lets the Orks into the tomb, separates and traps them in the labyrinthine tunnels, and then sets Sedh's Flayed Ones on them.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_4cb71cf9	type	Unwilling Roboticisation
The Twice-Dead King / int_4cb71cf9	comment	Unwilling Roboticisation: a significant subset of the Necrontyr population were dragged involuntarily to biotransference. Olytx himself was one such, having lost his nerve moments before stepping through the gate.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
The Twice-Dead King / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: To make up for poorly-specified terrible crimes during the War in Heaven, Mentep devoted himself to researching and attempting to cure the Flayer Curse and working as the necron equivalent of a psychotherapist.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
The Twice-Dead King / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: We have the warriors of Ithakas - ex-biological constructs afflicted by the Flayer Curse (which makes them crave flesh to eat, caused by the ancient murder of their god Llandu'gor) - facing off against the Angels Encarnadine - transhuman constructs afflicted by the Red Thirst (which makes them crave blood to drink) and the Black Rage (caused by the ancient murder of their primarch).
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The Twice-Dead King / int_51d8f2e3	type	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
The Twice-Dead King / int_51d8f2e3	comment	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: The Council of Sedh, composed as it is of senile, disgraced, and/or resentful minor nobles, is utterly incapable of deciding on any useful course of action.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
The Twice-Dead King / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: Dynast Unnas has succumbed to the Flayer Curse, throwing Ithakas into disarray.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_5345de5	type	Strange-Syntax Speaker
The Twice-Dead King / int_5345de5	comment	Strange-Syntax Speaker: The Ogdobekh dynasty is noted to use a bizarre sentence structure where everything is phrased as a question and answer, rather than a straightforward statement. Almost all of Zultanekh's dialogue is delivered this way.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Twice-Dead King / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Large portions of Ruin show Oltyx's youth, courtesy of his evocatory medium technology.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
The Twice-Dead King / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Djoseras and Zultanekh developed an immense respect for and friendship with each other over years of war between their dynasties, and kept in touch even after the peace treaty was signed. Zultanekh's regard is such that he lends Oltyx risky, lifesaving aid on nothing but Djoseras's request.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_5aea9c6a	type	Virus-Victim Symptoms
The Twice-Dead King / int_5aea9c6a	comment	Virus-Victim Symptoms: Flayed Ones start with social withdrawal and mood lability, then gain the urge to bite people's faces off and begin to physically morph, taking on clawed and twisted forms.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_5ca04734	type	The Legend of Chekhov
The Twice-Dead King / int_5ca04734	comment	The Legend of Chekhov: The rumours of Valgul the Bone King and his Flayed kingdom on Drazak. Although Valgul himself never appears, Drazak exists, and Oltyx takes up mythical role as Flayed king.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_5e2f5ad2	type	You Kill It, You Bought It
The Twice-Dead King / int_5e2f5ad2	comment	You Kill It, You Bought It: Lysikor obtained his nemesor-hood by the simple expedient of killing everybody higher in rank than him.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Twice-Dead King / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Lysikor is a highly skilled assassin. He also has no empathy or social skills and a tendency to steal things from Oltyx and return them randomly.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
The Twice-Dead King / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Necrontyr culture valued the lives of the lower class very little, and so took this approach to war. This was only intensified as biotransferance granted them the ability to automatically recall and repair damaged warriors, meaning each one could be sacrificed multiple times. However, sixty million years without upkeep means that the translation tech has accumulated errors, so they can expect upwards of three percent failure rate. Considering that they have no ability to replace warriors that have been completely destroyed, this is a very serious problem. The Imperium, despite lacking this ability, wins by accounting their soldiers' lives even cheaper - and having a lot more of them.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_61ff365d	type	Deflector Shields
The Twice-Dead King / int_61ff365d	comment	In the final defense of Antikef, Djoseras shores up the city's Deflector Shields with energy from his personal, internal power source. It shorts all his other systems out for a while.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_6682d6e4	type	Dying Moment of Awesome
The Twice-Dead King / int_6682d6e4	comment	Dying Moment of Awesome: Denet finally summoning the monoliths and saving the Akrops. Djoseras's Last Stand against the Astartes invading Antikef.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
The Twice-Dead King / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: When captured, Oltyx gets all the special abilities his social class afforded him stripped away, and has to fight like a normal necron.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
The Twice-Dead King / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: The crew of the Polyphemus against the Flayed.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_72d9724c	type	Scenery-Based Societal Barometer
The Twice-Dead King / int_72d9724c	comment	Scenery Based Societal Barometer: The physical damage to the Ithakas dynasty's homeworld Antikef, and the re-establishment of an ecosystem, reflects its inhabitants' fall to the Flayer Curse.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_730c2e3	type	Void Between the Worlds
The Twice-Dead King / int_730c2e3	comment	The "ghostwind" seems to be a sort of Void Between the Worlds; Mentep describes its discovery as digging down through the layers of space, reality, and meta-reality until they "found the bottom". It contains absolutely nothing; no light, no gravity, no kind of spatial or quantum structure than can be measured by their instruments, or so much as a speck of dust. It's so "fundamental" that their more advanced technology won't work, and they have to resort to simpler methods like radio communication. Oltyx perceives it as sentient and hungry — energy spilled into that void doesn't just dissipate but gets sucked away, as if consumed — and is reminded ominously of the C'tan.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_73f7975f	type	Jerkass Gods
The Twice-Dead King / int_73f7975f	comment	Jerkass Gods: The C'tan really did the Necrontyr dirty with biotransferance. A significant example is the inclusion of pain receptors in their robot bodies, which the invokedWord of God outright called "a dick move by the C'tan".
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The Twice-Dead King / int_76c7754f	type	All of Them
The Twice-Dead King / int_76c7754f	comment	All of Them: In Reign, as the human crusade fleet begins catching up to the Akrops:
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The Twice-Dead King / int_79974fb8	type	Rock Beats Laser
The Twice-Dead King / int_79974fb8	comment	Rock Beats Laser: In one scene from Reign, an Imperial nova cannon obliterates a Necron ship in one shot, because its defenses are designed for threats so sophisticated that something as brutish and simplistic as a hunk of metal traveling at very high speed barely registers to them. The Necron ship’s shield generators implode, taking the ship with it.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_7b4cb802	type	Bodyguard Betrayal
The Twice-Dead King / int_7b4cb802	comment	Bodyguard Betrayal: Unnas' royal lychguard are fed up enough with serving a Flayer that they do nothing to prevent his assassination.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Twice-Dead King / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Necrons accidentally take a golden Imperial artifact, and decide to mock the humans by melting it down and using it to decorate their ships. The artifact contained the sacred remains of an Imperial Saint, and those remains hold a very potent psychic charge, making it basically a beacon for the humans to continue following and attacking the fleeing Ithakas fleet.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_80874b5d	type	Mechanical Abomination
The Twice-Dead King / int_80874b5d	comment	The planet Carnotite makes everyone uncomfortable. It's been completely taken over by Am-heht, a Necron warlock who has transformed into a towering, tentacled Mechanical Abomination. It's implied they were awake for the eons of the Great Sleep, running horrific experiments all the while, and not only has the planet been rendered a constantly-shifting irradiated wasteland, but the void of space around it has been stained red. Oh, and as Oltyx is leaving, he sees flashing patterns in the planet's structure that are disturbingly similar to the patterns of a Necron consciousness.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
The Twice-Dead King / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Sedh being a dumping ground for dynastic undesirables, all members of its population have some psychological issues going on.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_8404a0f3	type	Amnesiac Dissonance
The Twice-Dead King / int_8404a0f3	comment	Amnesiac Dissonance: Mentep, having wiped his own memories of the atrocities he committed as a psychomancer, is much kindlier. Oltyx also realizes he was mistaken about the reason for his exile.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
The Twice-Dead King / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Oltyx is emotional, non-traditional, defiant, and pragmatic; Djoseras is The Dutiful Son and principled to a fault.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_85c5db50	type	In Love with Your Carnage
The Twice-Dead King / int_85c5db50	comment	In Love with Your Carnage: Lysikor finds Oltyx's martial skill, when he uses it fully, to be very impressive.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_89443850	type	Absolute Xenophobe
The Twice-Dead King / int_89443850	comment	Absolute Xenophobe: The Imperium of Man suffers not the alien to live, which is why they're going on crusade. Exaggerated with Borakka and the Destroyer Cult: their end goal is not just the destruction of all non-necron species, but all life, everywhere.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_8f0dc93c	type	Dangerous Forbidden Technique
The Twice-Dead King / int_8f0dc93c	comment	Dangerous Forbidden Technique: The evocatory medium allows a necron to retrieve a memory in picture-perfect sensory detail, at the cost of permanently losing that memory after it has been relived. Needless to say, unjudicious use can do a lot of psychological damage. In the final defense of Antikef, Djoseras shores up the city's Deflector Shields with energy from his personal, internal power source. It shorts all his other systems out for a while.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_916c9d1b	type	Mark of Shame
The Twice-Dead King / int_916c9d1b	comment	Mark of Shame: As a sign of his disgrace, Oltyx's shiny silver coating is stripped off when he is exiled, leaving him matte and black.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_93399c3c	type	Patricide
The Twice-Dead King / int_93399c3c	comment	Patricide: Oltyx attempts to kill Unnas thrice before finally succeeding.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_96a74e59	type	Space Battle
The Twice-Dead King / int_96a74e59	comment	Space Battle: The conclusion of Ruin, and most of Reign are marked by numerous fights between the crusade forces and the fleeing necrons.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_973291cd	type	Pardon My Klingon
The Twice-Dead King / int_973291cd	comment	Pardon My Klingon: An interesting variant. "Khertt" (which means “feces”) is considered unimaginably rude in Necron, even though it's two euphemisms removed from both its actual meaning and being an actual curse, and Xenology uses it in a perfectly innocent context.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_9aa3d869	type	Creative Sterility
The Twice-Dead King / int_9aa3d869	comment	Creative Sterility: Biotransferance removed large amounts of the Necrons' creative abilities.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
The Twice-Dead King / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: Lysikor is a Deathmark assassin, an honorary nemessor, and trusty instrument for Oltyx, both in battle and in court matters. He's also kept on a short leash since Oltyx can't trust him, and Lysikor is power-grubbing kleptomaniac, who earned his title by murdering everybody on-world who outranked him, and he's building his personal army by stealing Canoptek robots of all sorts (since he isn't allowed to command necrons of his own). When he parts ways with Oltyx, it's with a message wishing Oltyx luck, mentioning that he stole all the canopteks, and informing Oltyx that the latter's actions put him out of reach for Lysikor to betray and kill him, as was expected. Lysikor was genuinely regretful about it, as though he was sorry to disappoint Oltyx by not playing the role that was expected of him.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
The Twice-Dead King / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The series offers a few of them: The planet Carnotite makes everyone uncomfortable. It's been completely taken over by Am-heht, a Necron warlock who has transformed into a towering, tentacled Mechanical Abomination. It's implied they were awake for the eons of the Great Sleep, running horrific experiments all the while, and not only has the planet been rendered a constantly-shifting irradiated wasteland, but the void of space around it has been stained red. Oh, and as Oltyx is leaving, he sees flashing patterns in the planet's structure that are disturbingly similar to the patterns of a Necron consciousness. The "ghostwind" seems to be a sort of Void Between the Worlds; Mentep describes its discovery as digging down through the layers of space, reality, and meta-reality until they "found the bottom". It contains absolutely nothing; no light, no gravity, no kind of spatial or quantum structure than can be measured by their instruments, or so much as a speck of dust. It's so "fundamental" that their more advanced technology won't work, and they have to resort to simpler methods like radio communication. Oltyx perceives it as sentient and hungry — energy spilled into that void doesn't just dissipate but gets sucked away, as if consumed — and is reminded ominously of the C'tan.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Twice-Dead King / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Trazyn, Orikan, and Szarekh, other named Necron characters (and, for the first two, the protagonists of The Infinite and the Divine) are periodically name-dropped. Zahndrekh and Obyron, protagonists of Crowley's previous novella Severed, appear in flashback, no less idiosyncratic in the flesh. Mentep mentions a former colleague, the cryptek Khertykh, as having travelled to Doahht (the setting of Severed), heavily implying that he is responsible for the events of that story.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
The Twice-Dead King / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: Necron dynastic protocols immediately transfer authority to the heir should the dynast die. Upon Oltyx's ascension, the world literally goes gold, and every necron present kneels.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_a27da813	type	Stern Chase
The Twice-Dead King / int_a27da813	comment	Stern Chase: Reign; Crowley wanted to write "a story that's one long chase scene".
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The Twice-Dead King / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
The Twice-Dead King / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Hemium, Unnas's vizier, takes advantage of his mental decline to the Flayer Curse to take control of the dynasty.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_a3e3cce1	type	Invading Refugees
The Twice-Dead King / int_a3e3cce1	comment	Invading Refugees: The orks that are invading Sedh are revealed to be running from an encroaching Imperial crusade.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Twice-Dead King / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: This series introduces the "dysphorakh", which is described as a constantly-screaming subconscious phenomenon caused by parts of the organic Necrontyr mind that got preserved in the Necrons, perpetually convinced it's about to die because it's trapped in a body that can't breathe, has no heartbeat, etcetera. It's suggested that all Necrons suffer from it, and that the various fixations notable Necrons develop (such as Trazyn's collection and Imotekh's wars) are ultimately attempts to distract themselves from it. When Oltyx nearly succumbs to it, he's left in a constant state of panic, desperately trying to breathe even though he has no mouth or lungs. This is also the fate of all the Necrons on Carnotite. Am-heht enslaved the entire population, and even Mentep, who admits to having committed terrible atrocities, is horrified and disgusted by it. Only one is shown, "Shabb", who used to be the Phaeron of a now-forgotten dynasty, and it's implied that he's been trapped in this state for millions of years while others got to be in stasis. Am-heht briefly releases control, and he certainly does scream, with so much agony and madness that Oltyx is terrified.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_ab17f66	type	Big Brother Mentor
The Twice-Dead King / int_ab17f66	comment	Big Brother Mentor: Djoseras, Oltyx's elder brother, taught him almost all he knows about tactics and Necrontyr social structure.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_abbea4f7	type	Dumb Struck
The Twice-Dead King / int_abbea4f7	comment	Dumb Struck: Upon realizing Djoseras has died, Oltyx is too grieved to say the appropriate litany.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_ae6adc36	type	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
The Twice-Dead King / int_ae6adc36	comment	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: The three flagships of the Imperial crusade fleet have names drawn from the Odyssey, and play similar roles: The Polyphemus is named after the cyclops who Odysseus outwits and blinds, only for this to cause even more trouble for him. At the end of Ruin, Oltyx and Yenekh trick the Polyphemus, slicing off its massive figurehead as they flee. In Reign, they keep the figurehead as a trophy, only to discover that the entire Imperial fleet is now hunting them relentlessly by tracking the psychically-charged gold the figurehead was made of. The Lystraegonian, a Space Marine battle barge, is named after a race of cannibalistic giants who sink all but one of Odysseus’s ships. It’s the Lystraegonian and the Angels Encarmine (a Blood Angels successor, and so subject to the Red Thirst) aboard who ultimately bring down Antikef, forcing Olytx to flee aboard a single warship. The Tyresias, an Ark Mechanicus, is named after a blind prophet whose ghost Odysseus encounters and shows him how to return home. Oltyx boards and destroys the Tyresias at the gravitic trebuchet he uses to reach Carnotite, where he learns of the ghostwind that ultimately takes him to Drazak, his new home. Also, one should consider the similarities between the names “Odysseus” and “Oltyx”, especially considering his home dynasty is called Ithakas.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_b4dcdf5b	type	Antagonist in Mourning
The Twice-Dead King / int_b4dcdf5b	comment	Antagonist in Mourning: Given their status as Friendly Enemies, Zultanekh professes himself quite grieved at Djoseras's death.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Twice-Dead King / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Oltyx and Djoseras both got a single-shot tachyon arrow built into their bodies after biotransference, an immensely powerful weapon that can obliterate Imperial Titans. Oltyx wasted his almost immediately on a single Eldar craft, and missed. He does not like being reminded of that.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Twice-Dead King / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Even with all his non-traditional opinions, Oltyx thinks that Unnas desecrating and wearing the mummified corpse of the semi-legendary dynastic founder Ithakka like a mask is beyond the pale.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
The Twice-Dead King / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: Oltyx first goes to war four years before reaching the Necron age of majority. This is implied to be unremarkable.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Twice-Dead King / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: In Reign, Oltyx has finally taken up the crown of the Ithakas dynasty - which comprises a minuscule handful of necrons, a large proportion of whom are senile or going mad, running desperately away from a human armada. He struggles to maintain respect, keep control, and make tactical decisions.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Twice-Dead King / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Is the Flayer Curse the dying vengeance of the evil god Llandu'gor on the race that murdered it? Is is a psychological condition arising from lingering biological instincts moved to a mechanical body? A mix of both? Nobody seems sure. Also, when Oltyx discovers he has the Curse and pilots his personal ship towards the Imperial fleet on a suicide mission. His core ruptures and he ‘dies.’ While in this state of ‘death,’ he experiences visions akin to those produced by the evocatory medium, but the memories don’t belong to him. This is never fully explained.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
The Twice-Dead King / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Oltyx spends much of his time in Reign smoothing over or crushing political dissent among his followers - while they are still fleeing the crusade.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_cf7b362	type	Horror Hunger
The Twice-Dead King / int_cf7b362	comment	Horror Hunger: The Flayer Curse gives Necrons the urge to eat the flesh from, and wear the skin and bones of, organic creatures.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_d7ab4666	type	Skeletons in the Coat Closet
The Twice-Dead King / int_d7ab4666	comment	Skeletons in the Coat Closet: Oltyx goes on his suicide mission against the Polyphemus plated in bone and wearing a skull he stole from an Astartes chaplain's armour, ostensibly for psychological warfare purposes.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_dd92bf66	type	Warrior Prince
The Twice-Dead King / int_dd92bf66	comment	Warrior Prince: Oltyx and Djoseras.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_e5700c89	type	Reluctant Psycho
The Twice-Dead King / int_e5700c89	comment	Reluctant Psycho: Yenekh fights the Flayer Curse to the best of his abilities.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_e5ad5c7a	type	Fully-Embraced Fiend
The Twice-Dead King / int_e5ad5c7a	comment	Fully-Embraced Fiend: Oltyx and the remains of his dynasty receive their happy ending when they realize the Flayer curse is nothing to be afraid of and surrender to it willingly, joining/retroactively founding the legendary Bone Kingdom of Drazak that all Flayed Ones are drawn to.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
The Twice-Dead King / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: Oltyx's evocatory medium destroys the memories selected to be relived; Mentep's prototype does the same as its explicit purpose.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_ea1fe5d3	type	Staking the Loved One
The Twice-Dead King / int_ea1fe5d3	comment	Staking the Loved One: Discussed. When Oltyx finds out Yenekh is a Flayed One, he proceeds to tell him exactly how he should cast him out or execute him, while Yenekh begs for another chance.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
The Twice-Dead King / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: The necrons have invincible bodies, but not invincible minds, and are all slowly going mad from the weight of immortality. Oltyx considers biotransferance the worst mistake of his life.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_ea51fa45	type	I Never Got Any Letters
The Twice-Dead King / int_ea51fa45	comment	I Never Got Any Letters: Subverted. Oltyx accuses Djoseras of ignoring his reports. Djoseras responds that a) he read every single report, he was just prevented from replying, and b) nothing ever prevented them from just talking normally via their Necron private messaging systems, other than Oltyx's refusal to.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_eb4086e3	type	Big Creepy-Crawlies
The Twice-Dead King / int_eb4086e3	comment	Big Creepy-Crawlies: The necrontyr had domesticated creatures called uropygasts, which resemble 2- to 3-foot centipedes.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Twice-Dead King / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: After Oltyx has been captured and tortured by evil vizier Hemium, Djoseras strides in bringing all the troops he has mustered offscreen to defend Antikef. And when that defence begins to fail, Yenekh and the Akrops appear so that Oltyx can escape.
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The Twice-Dead King / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
The Twice-Dead King / int_f7cee9b	comment	Djoseras's Last Stand against the Astartes invading Antikef.
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